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Living Rationally Under the Volcano? An Empirical Analysis of Heavy Drinking and Smoking

Arcidiacono, Peter; Sieg, Holger; Sloan, Frank A. - 2022

This study investigates whether models of forward-looking behavior explain the observed patterns of heavy drinking and … sequence of nested models which differ by their degree of forward-looking behavior. We also study models which allow for … heterogeneity in discounting, and thus test whether certain types of individuals are more likely to show forward-looking behavior …

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Forgetting and Heterogeneity in Task Delay : Evidence from New York City Parking-Ticket Recipients

Heffetz, Ori - 2017

We study response behavior of New York City parking-ticket recipients by analyzing administrative data on 6.6 million … their content mattering little. Moreover, by studying an individual's behavior across multiple tickets, we find significant …

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Rational Inattention and Sequential Information Sampling

Hébert, Benjamin - 2017

introduce a continuous-time model of sequential information sampling, and show that, in a broad class of cases, the choice …

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Social Security Claiming Decisions : Survey Evidence

Shoven, John B. - 2017

While research shows that there are large gains in lifetime wealth from delaying claiming Social Security, most people claim at or before full retirement age. We fielded an original, nationally representative survey to gain insight into people's rationales for their Social Security claiming...

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Self-Control and Demand for Preventive Health : Evidence from Hypertension in India

Bai, Liang - 2017

experiencing any health benefit. We develop and structurally estimate a pre-specified model of consumer behavior under present bias …

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Quicksand or Bedrock for Behavioral Economics? Assessing Foundational Empirical Questions

Stango, Victor - 2017

Behavioral economics lacks empirical evidence on some foundational empirical questions. We adapt standard elicitation methods to measure multiple behavioral factors per person in a representative U.S. sample, along with financial condition, cognitive skills, financial literacy, classical...

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How Soon is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments

Balakrishnan, Uttara - 2017

Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called into question on both empirical and theoretical grounds, and a spate of recent findings suggest...

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Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Non-Cognitive Abilities

Black, Sandra E. - 2017

We study the effect of birth order on personality traits among men using population data on enlistment records and occupations for Sweden. We find that earlier born men are more emotionally stable, persistent, socially outgoing, willing to assume responsibility, and able to take initiative than...

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Unemployment and Health Behaviors Over the Business Cycle : A Longitudinal View

Colman, Greg - 2014

We examine the first-order internal effects of unemployment on a range of health behaviors during the most recent recession using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). Consistent with prior studies based on...

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Hit or Miss? Test Taking Behavior in Multiple Choice Exams

Akyol, Saziye - 2016

We model and estimate the decision to answer questions in multiple choice tests with negative marking. Our focus is on …

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